%0 journal article
%@ 0022-3670
%A Becherer, J., Moum, J., Calantoni, J., Colosi, J., Barth, J., Lerczak, J., McSweeney, J., MacKinnnon, J., Waterhouse, A.

%D 2021
%J Journal of Physical Oceanography
%N 8
%P 2553-2563 
%R doi:10.1175/JPO-D-20-0264.1
%T Saturation of the Internal Tide over the Inner Continental Shelf. Part I: Observations
%U https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-20-0264.1
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%X Broadly distributed measurements of velocity, density, and turbulence spanning the inner shelf off central California indicate that (i) the average shoreward-directed internal tide energy flux ⟨FE⟩ decreases to near 0 at the 25-m isobath; (ii) the vertically integrated turbulence dissipation rate ⟨D⟩ is approximately equal to the flux divergence of internal tide energy ∂x⟨FE⟩; (iii) the ratio of turbulence energy dissipation in the interior relative to the bottom boundary layer (BBL) decreases toward shallow waters; (iv) going inshore, ⟨FE⟩ becomes decorrelated with the incoming internal wave energy flux; and (v) ⟨FE⟩ becomes increasingly correlated with stratification toward shallower water.